Healthcare
Healthcare organizations worldwide are struggling with the same issue: managing the widening gap between human needs and financial resources. Aging populations are demanding improved care, while the cost of care is increasingly challenging governments, institutions and individuals. Consequently, healthcare executives are faced with the balance of managing ever-escalating costs while providing quality care.
Sierra Vista Group’s consultants have been successful at moving complex and highly regulated organizations forward by providing clear direction, strategy and integrated operational and IT initiatives. With that in mind, SVG has been a driving force; delivering innovative solutions and helping organizations achieve higher levels of performance. SVG recognizes that patients need to be the primary focus of all healthcare initiatives.
Services
Sierra Vista Group provides integrated services from its Advisory and Technology service areas assisting the healthcare industry, and related organizations: insurers, academic medical centers and pharmacy-benefit providers. Our key strength is our focused specialization in building, integrating and supporting mission critical business systems and applications. SVG designs solutions that meet the individual requirements of companies across the healthcare spectrum
- Claims processing
- Call center systems design
- Electronic Health Records, assessment and implementation
- Capacity and patient management information
- Merger, consolidation, integration of organizations and systems
- Strategy development and implementation
- IT systems architecture, development and implementation
- Organizational change management and effectiveness
- Cost / revenue alignment
Client Challenges
Healthcare service organizations are operating in a highly dynamic environment. SVG provides guidance and solutions to a wide array of challenges:
- Regulatory compliance issues
- ICD-10 implementation
- Electronic reporting and medical records
- HIPPA information sharing requirements
- Effective claims processing
- Managing cost structures
- Maximizing human resource utilization
- Patient tracking management
- Leveraging technology to improve competitiveness
Business Value
Sierra Vista Group’s cross-functional consultants are experienced in Advisory and IT services and thoroughly understand the healthcare market. We have successfully assisted organizations improve their business processes, operational functions and technology with a shared objective of enhancing patient care and ROI. The following highlights demonstrate our experience and achievements with our clients:
- Redesigned business processes contributing to reduced overhead
- Developed and implemented technology to increase call center efficiency
- Provided consultative services in the strategy development and design of EHR
- Initiated a program to improve clinical quality and customer service
- Designed, developed and implemented a global technical conversion for a content management system utilized for clinical research within a medical school
Medical Director: Dean R. Wasserman, M.D., FACPE
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